Wanderer

Electroacustic/Ambient album (2019)

AUGUST 2019 ON UNKNOWN TONE RECORDS (US)

“Wanderer, your footstepsare the road, and nothing morewanderer, there is no road,the road is made by walking.By walking one makes the road,and upon glancing behind onesees the path that neverwill be trod again.Wanderer, there is no roadOnly wakes upon the sea.”A.Machado

“I believe that nothing can better express the desire to go beyond one’s own borders, which in German is described by the term “Wanderlust”, that the journey, made 50 years ago, by a handful of men, to reach the surface of the Moon.

In 2015, I let myself be led by this feeling, to work on an album that only now sees the light. Time has passed, but, on second thought, perhaps this year was the year to release this album that talks about journey and other, full of beauty, things.” – Francesco Maria Narcisi

released August 27, 2019 – Unknown Tone Records

I A Quiet Turmoil
I.II Look For An Old Balance
I.III In The Drop
II A Collapsed Counterpoint
III.I Wanderlust
III.II Ascension
III.III Endless Spaces
IIII The Principle Of Polarity

“Every man, in the course of his brief existence, must choose eternally between sleepless hope and wise renunciation of all hope, between the pleasures of anarchy and those of order, between the Titan and the Olimpico. Choose between them, or be able to compose, among them, the harmony ”M.Yourcenar – Memories of Adriano

Composed, performed, produced and mixed by Francesco Maria Narcisi from May to September 2015. Mastered by Lawrence English at 158 – November 2015.

Artwork by Mark Kuykendall. Videos by Francesco Maria Narcisi.

It is not necessarily the physical places through which we unfold our path those that make us travelers, although the genesis of this work lies in a period in which I needed changes that were not only internal but also of place and environment. We are wayfarers because they are restless and in constant search for balance. We struggle to achieve stability, but as soon as we find a glimmer of peace and we calm down, here we are taken away or we tear it up by ourselves out of impatience. Wanderer lives on conflicts and distortions, it is the representation of the awareness of the fact that there is not only peace, but the need for contrasts and acceptance of anxiety as an indispensable part of the vital spirit.